I had my new editor over yesterday to start working on the updated version of Anna's Kitchen.

Anna's Kitchen was my very first book, and I completely self-published it. I think there should be a requirement somewhere that every author must do this at least once in their lifetime. It is an incredible learning experience and it makes authors extremely aware of just how much hard work goes into publishing a book.

Since I had no one to edit or proof read my book I did it all myself. This meant I used my spell checker for a proof reader. Big mistake, I know, but that is one of the many reasons why I learned that every author, no matter how rich and famous, simply must have an editor.

My editor found all kinds of errors going back to the original manuscript. One of them he found particularly funny. It was a gravy recipe, and it said, "add two tablespoons of fate." He laughed and laughed. He asked me if that meant we were supposed to pray over the gravy as it was being prepared. Now mind you, that is actually not a bad idea. I pray over the little everyday things in life much more than the big things, but in this case it was actually a typo that the spell checker missed. "Fate" was spelled correctly. What it should have read was, "add two tablespoons of fat."

Yes, that would be a good recipe for gravy. But for everyday life yes, you should add two tablespoons of fate everyday. What will be will be.

My thought for the day.

Gayle Martin